Thanks TinEye fans! Our TinEye Firefox add-on broke 500,000 downloads this week. We are excited!
Photo authenticity in reporting
As TinEye scoops PEI news in the CBC reporting today I can’t help but think about the two blog posts that have been brewing in my head for a little while now: Authenticity of photographs in reporting (or editorial news) and Photo credits: and by photo credits I mean providing appropriate photo credits at all time. So there will be soon a longer blog post about both, in the meantime enjoy...
Hacking with computer vision
Looking for tennis courts on aerial photos: how it works and using computer vision. Fun!
All systems go for TinEye
We have dealt with our TinEye slow downs. And everything is back to normal. If you notice any slow downs, let us know. Happy searching.
TinEye is slowing down
TinEye friends, TinEye is experiencing a bit of a slowdown today. We are looking into things and hope to figure out what’s going on and fix it before you guys experience any TinEye withdrawals.
(Photo by Ross Orr)
TinEye and browser extensions
We spend a significant amount of time in the Ideeplex looking over and analyzing data. We work with extremely large data sets (images typically) and it is always interesting to see what rises up to the surface once you dive in.
Operation Komando!
Thanks TinEye fans for making us a Kim Komando cool website of the day! May be you are not familiar with Kim Komando? She is a digital goddess! Seriously: Kim’s weekly three-hour call-in talk radio show is heard (via her own national radio network called WestStar) on over 450 stations. In addition, she does a Digital Minute radio feature five days a week; has written ten books about...
The truth and nothing but the truth: Shepard Fairey lies.
Via Techcrunch: Striking at the heart of his fair use case against the AP, Shepard Fairey has now been forced to admit that he sued the AP under false pretenses by lying about which AP photograph he used to make the Hope and Progress posters. Mr. Fairey has also now admitted to the AP that he fabricated and attempted to destroy other evidence in an effort to bolster his fair use case and cover up...
TinEye Firefox Extension = Awesomesauce
We thought enabling you to search for an image using an images was the apogée of search. The nec plus ultra, the ultimate … well you get my drift. Using TinEye you still had to upload an image or feed TinEye a URL. For those of you still unfamiliar with TinEye (how is that possible?):
TinEye on CNN
TinEye, our reverse image search engine, ended up on CNN with Kyra Phillips. Lucky TinEye!
During this segment, CNN’s Kyra Phillips talks to virtual safety expert Christine Durst about protecting your family photos online. Have a listen:
Surprising what TinEye can unearth, like say an older photograph of Kyra Phillips being used on a Latin American online clinic website!